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Connecticut Post Building, (sculpture). Artist:  Nivola, Costantino, 1911-1988, sculptor. Title:  Connecticut Post Building, (sculpture). Dates:  Installed 1966. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Cast concrete. Dimensions:  Approx. 20 x 62 x 1 ft. Inscription:  (In lower left corner of first panel: artist's signature) signed Description:  A building mural consisting of twenty vertical, high relief panels, depicting the people, events, pressures, and iconography associated with publishing a newspaper, as well as the news itself. The panels are read left to right and are referred to by number. In the first and second panels, a figure representing an editor dominates. The bottom of the second panel has a weather map. In the third, fourth, and fifth panels there is an abstract group to represent a husband, wife, and two children. The fourth panel includes two heads of people in the news. Panels six through ten have academic figures to symbolize education. Bottles representing liquor industry advertising appear in panel six. Panel seven features the stock exchange chart. Panels eight and nine have a house to represent real estate. Panels ten and eleven show a group of children to represent sports and health. Panel eleven has a portrait of a violin player to symbolize music. Panel twelve has the American flag and a figure to describe the state and country. Panel thirteen includes a group of three classical figures to represent the artistic muses. Nature and animals, suggesting fantasy and humor, appear in panel thirteen and run into the next panel. Along the upper right panels are three stars symbolizing excellence and fame, while paying homage to the old three-star edition of The Bridgeport Post. Panels fifteen and sixteen include a stage. Panels seventeen and eighteen have a group symbolizing brotherhood, love, and peace. Panel seventeen has a group of objects used in the home. Panels eighteen, nineteen, and twenty have a group representing customs, society, and fashion. Panel nineteen shows a horizon with clouds, a vast sky and a planet to illustrate space research. Panel twenty includes tools of industry and advertising. Subject:  Abstract Object -- Written Matter -- Newspaper Allegory -- Other -- Bridgeport Post Occupation -- Writer -- Editor Figure group -- Family Occupation -- Education Recreation -- Sport & Play Allegory -- Passion -- Love Allegory -- Civic Allegory -- Life -- Fraternity Architecture -- Civic -- Theater Architecture -- Domestic -- House Performing Arts -- Music -- Violin Mythology -- Classical -- Muse Fantasy Animal Object -- Other -- Flag Object -- Foodstuff -- Beverage Landscape -- Celestial -- Planet Object -- Written Matter -- Map Occupation -- Industry Occupation -- Communication Arts -- Advertising Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Connecticut -- Bridgeport Mural Sculpture Owner:  Connecticut Post, 410 State Street, West side of building, on upper two floors, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604 Provenance:  Formerly located Bridgeport Post, 410 State Street, West side of building, on upper two floors, Bridgeport, Connecticut Remarks:  The Connecticut Post newspaper was formerly known as The Bridgeport Post. IAS files contain a related article from The Bridgeport Post, Sept. 25, 1990. References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Connecticut survey, 1993. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS CT000270   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture CT000270 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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